History WhamEpisode / StarTrekDeepSpaceNine

* "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E26CallToArms}} Call to Arms]]" - The Season 5 finale: the Dominion attack Deep Space Nine... and ''take it'', returning Dukat to command; the Wormhole is mined, cutting off access to the Gamma quadrant; and Jake Sisko stays behind on the Dominion-occupied station.

* "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS06E19InThePaleMoonlight}} In the Pale Moonlight]]" is one giant WhamEpisode. It starts with Sisko trying to come to terms with something disastrous he's done and it initially looks like it's about how his meddling brought the Romulans into the war on the Dominion's side.
** He tried to bring the Romulans into the war, and enlisted Garak's help to try and locate evidence that the Dominion is planning to betray the Romulans.
** But there isn't any evidence, so they decide to forge some.
** The Romulans see through it and vow to ruin Sisko, who accepts it's all over for him and the Federation.
*** Then the ship blows up, a new team of Romulans discover the forged evidence on board but can't tell it's a forgery (because the original defects could have been caused by the explosion) and conclude the Dominion blew up the ship to prevent the evidence reaching Romulus, and enter the war on the Federation's side.
*** And that's when Sisko realizes that [[MagnificentBastard Garak did it]], that this was [[CrazyPrepared Garak's]] [[BatmanGambit plan]] all along, and now he has to live with the consequences of forgery, arson and murder. Dragging a neutral power into war, causing the death of countless Romulans who would have otherwise lived. Biggest wham moment of them all? He realizes he ''can'' live with it and he ''would do it again''.

* A particularly notable example is the 2-part episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E20ImprobableCause}} Improbable Cause]]"/"[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E21TheDieIsCast}} The Die Is Cast]]", with a JustForFun.HolyShitQuotient that's off the charts: Garak blew up his own shop, Tain is working with the Romulans to destroy the Founders, Garak is willing to forget that Tain tried to kill him and rejoin the Obsidian Order, Tain orders Garak to torture Odo and he DOES, Odo admits he wants to rejoin the Founders, Garak then protects Odo's secret and lies to Tain's face about it, the leader of the Tal Shiar is actually a Founder and the entire plot was a means to eliminate both the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar in one fell swoop... ''and the Founders' plan succeeds''... whew.

* A particularly notable example is the 2-part episode "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E20ImprobableCause}} Improbable Cause]]"/"[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS03E21TheDieIsCast}} The Die Is Cast]]", with a HolyShitQuotient that's off the charts: Garak blew up his own shop, Tain is working with the Romulans to destroy the Founders, Garak is willing to forget that Tain tried to kill him and rejoin the Obsidian Order, Tain orders Garak to torture Odo and he DOES, Odo admits he wants to rejoin the Founders, Garak then protects Odo's secret and lies to Tain's face about it, the leader of the Tal Shiar is actually a Founder and the entire plot was a means to eliminate both the Obsidian Order and the Tal Shiar in one fell swoop... ''and the Founders' plan succeeds''... whew.

* Jadzia's death. While it was pretty much well known among fans that the actress was leaving the show and they were killing the character off, the brutality of an outright on-screen murder of a main character while praying at a temple altar was jarring.

* [[''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' The show]] takes its first drastic turn with the second season finale "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E26TheJemHadar}} The Jem'Hadar]]". While previous episodes are either self-contained or part of a brief or occasionally-visited StoryArc, this episode introduces a new antagonist, blows up a ''Galaxy''-class starship (just like the ''Enterprise''-D) and kicks off a StoryArc which grows increasingly important over the rest of the series.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' takes a drastic turn with the second season finale "[[{{Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E26TheJemHadar}} The Jem'Hadar]]". While previous episodes are either self-contained or part of a brief or occasionally-visited StoryArc, this episode introduces a new antagonist, blows up a ''Galaxy''-class starship (just like the ''Enterprise''-D) and kicks off a StoryArc which grows increasingly important over the rest of the series.